Optimal diversification in Avida

g <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted:

> On-going work with Avida has demonstrated that a digital species will not
> diversify optimally where the supply of energy (as in food)
> metabolizable by a species is overly abundant.

That's news to me.

What is "optimal diversification"?

Are there any theories about why lack of resource limits
might produce it?

Have these observations been published somewhere?

Lack of resource limits tends to produce exponential growth.

That that would result in many more individuals - and as a result
greater diversity, by most metrics I can think of.

Selection is also likely to be reduced somewhat in the absence of
resource limits - since fewer individuals will die or fail to
reproduce due to resource-related problems. Reduced selection
is also likely to result in greater diversity.

I'm not clear why that would be "sub-optimal".
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